Posted on 01/22/2007 12:52:23 PM PST by .cnI redruM
“It Happens. So it’s Part of What We Are.” Said Robinson Devor on behalf of his new film about bestiality inflicted by men upon horses.
Now, I’ve heard every miserable and pathetic excuse in the book. We have successfully defined deviancy down to the bedrock and don’t have a sharp enough drill bit to sink it any lower. Daniel Patrick Moynihan would turn over in his grave, but not if Robinson Devor, the director of the movie “Zoo,” were anywhere near his final resting place.
Devor’s decent into the depths of human depravity was unveiled at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Devor’s new “masterpiece” examines the aesthetic aspects of man-on-horse sexual relationships. No, I’m not exaggerating or making this up. Cine d’Arte now features aesthetic discussions of man-on-horse sexuality.
I’m not reacting angrily to the fact that Robinson Devor decided to make a movie about bestiality. I’m angry that he acts as if bestiality involves never having to say that you’re sorry. I’m even more thoroughly angry that this movie got a glowing review from Kenneth Turin of The Los Angeles Times.
"I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it." Devor claims proudly. I’m sure the creative geniuses that brought us “Laughing Tongues” also felt proud of the money shots. However, there are some things you can’t “aestheticize” the sleaze right out of. Getting your rocks off on a defenseless animal would have to belong on that list.
Twenty-five American soldiers dying in Iraq makes me sad, but I believe we can persevere through that. We made it past The Death March of Bataan and the landscape turned red at Anteitam. America can accept pain and suffering and still survive.
Yet, if this is what our nation’s artistic avant-garde admires, can we remain long on this earth as a nation? Isn’t our cultural heritage something we fight for? If this is the America the world sees at the movies, who can blame Osauma if he hates us. This cannot be what we are letting ourselves become.
The Sundance Film Festival propaganda describes the film as follows:
“The cinematic language invented for the film permits us to examine where we draw the line, how much perversity we can tolerate in others. In a broader sense, Zoo is really about thresholds. What can we stand to know, and, more importantly, what can we stand to accept?”
These guys get their enjoyment from sexually molesting horses. Should I really have to examine whether I’d find this beyond the pale of acceptable human desires? Are there people sitting near my cube in the office thinking? “Gosh, why do we get so bent out of shape over guys who molest the livestock?” Not if our society is any way worth approving.
On most moral issues, I’d probably aggravate a healthy plurality of the modern Conservative Movement. I really don’t care what two human beings above any reasonable age of consent do to one another by mutual agreement and in the privacy of their own homes. It's just that there has to be a limit to the level of acceptable behavior somewhere. A grate has to be installed above the sewer.
“It Happens. So it’s Part of What We Are.” Devor pontificates.
"I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it." Devor brags.
Devor cannot be right in either assertion. He cannot be deemed logical if we are to remain civilized. A line has to be drawn somewhere to arrest this appalling moral decay. It has gotten bad enough that I’m thinking that maybe mean old Reverend Cotton Mather legitimately had a point.
Yes, how much evil can we tolerate in others? That would be a measure of our moral cowardice.
Wasn't Brokeback Mountain a Sundance film?
And that Al Gore POS?
I can't remember. I pay as much attention to this garbage as I do to whether Paris Hilton pleads not guilty, or if Lindsay Lohan is in rehab or if Rosie is scarfing down 5 enchiladas and calling Trump some names again.
Someone tell me again how this is a multi-billion dollar industry?????
'Brokeback Mountain' premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Redford's whole idea behind Sundance was to display films that initially couldn't get Hollywood backing. How is the publishing industry so big with so many bad books? It's a large industry.
Good riddance.
And why aren't the PETA nazis protesting this? Maybe they figure the horses like it, so no problem.
Excuse me, but by turning your head to homosexuality, you are allowing in the next things; like incest and beastiality and child molestation.
I guess we dont need to ask if it was a young horse?....
No, fourty years ago, this is how they described Rosemary's Baby!
Don't bet on it.
What's next?
Tijuana donkeys??
There were walk outs at the initial 1951 screenings of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' claiming that Hollywood had sank to ann all time low of perversion.
Why this is happening...
Romans 1:21-32 Because that, when THEY KNEW GOD, they GLORIFIED HIM NOT AS GOD, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into an IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
-->> Wherefore GOD ALSO GAVE THEM UP TO uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
-->> And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Yet when that limit is drawn at homosexual marriage, the limiters are condemned as narrow-minded bigots. When it is drawn at raunchy sex scenes in movies, the limiters are derided as puritan prudes. When it is drawn at promotions of promiscuity or enticement to perversion, the limiters are ignored as repressed bible-thumpers.
This critic acts outraged by this slime, yet he tolerates it in lesser degree every day. The line should have been drawn long ago, and would have, except for people like him.
He deserves to drown in his own filth.
Darwin Award
"I'm glad I'M not a sick puppy!"
If you were, this filmmaker might be tempted to make a movie about it. :-)
This is just another example of the bar being lowered on perversion. So we're at movies glorifying bestiality now. I guess next year's moondance festival will include cannibalism of small children...just to push that bar a little lower.
Such disgusting liberal enlightenment makes Cotton Mather's strict Puritanism look appealing. If the hammer of censorship is ever slammed down here, whose fault will it be? -- the hammer wielder's or the subversive slime that called it forth?
"I guess next year's moondance festival will include cannibalism of small children...just to push that bar a little lower."
Exactly. Snuff films are next.
If the horse in question had common sense and decency, perhaps it would not have anally sexed that poor man to death.
bump with no comment.
Oh, now let's not resort to hyperbole.
We still have necrophilia, necrozoophelia, and even Helethomasophelia still fairly much off-limits.
In fact, Mather had his house firebombed by some fanatic who insisted the Bible said that diseases were God's punishment, not to be cured.
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